A comprehensive clean-up of tenfoots in the Crosby area has taken place in a bid to halt the blight of fly tipping in the area. CCTV is also being installed to catch the dumpers in action and halt other anti-social behaviour. The major operation took two days and involved 196 working hours, in addition to environmental health officers, transfer station workers and household recycling centre staff.
Items of evidence were passed onto Environmental Health with a view to prosecution for fly tipping. The mass clean took away 34 tonnes of abandoned rubbish, including: 12 tonnes of general waste Eight tonnes of bulky items including more than 60 mattresses, 25 sofas and 40 items of white goods Nine tonnes of smaller items including carpets, tables, wardrobes and rubble Five tonnes of swept rubbish such as litter and broken glass READ MORE: Government cash to help transform Scunthorpe building into community association centre ‘The closer it gets, the more nervous I become’ – Scunthorpe teacher’s dizzying plans for non-stop dance marathon It is hoped that by starting with a clean slate, it will be easier to identify who is dumping rubbish in the tenfoots and issue them with fines. Some people were spotted by the clean-up teams dumping rubbish after the clean-up – their details have now been passed onto Environmental Health.
Cllr Rob Waltham, leader of North Lincolnshire Council, said: “Residents have told us of their concern over rubbish in the tenfoots and I am pleased w.
